The Prime Mentalist is set to announce the themes and slogans of the Labour campaign this Saturday in the West Midlands. Get ready to hear and see these entirely mundane and predictable, vague and hollow lines a lot until polling day:

Guido can’t help but think February is a little early to be unveiling this much with a May polling date in mind…

Guido thinks we may have found an example of a “scum sucking Tory pig”. The troughing Wintertons are not standing at the election. He thinks, like Lord Mandelson, that he deserves first class luxury on the back of the taxpayers, hasn’t he heard that for public servants it is the age of austerity from now on. Nicholas Winterton won’t be missed…

Following the longest recession in history Britain posted its first-ever budget deficit for the month of January. Usually January is a bumper month for tax receipts. Unfunded government over-spending was £4.3 billion, when consensus economists were forecasting a £2.6 billion surplus, according to the median of 16 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey.

Don’t rule out a double-dip recession. With neither the Conservatives or Labour offering policies to kick-start consumer spending and GDP growth, we could be in a lot of trouble…

Quote of the Day

“I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they’ve got more interesting things to say. Too many columnists today make you think, ‘Yeah, I think you’ve said that 10 times before and I’ve just noticed your column has not go a single fact in it’”.